I installed ewapatches like:

sudo su
echo "deb stable misc" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/midi-fbriere.net.list
wget -q -O- ' | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q -O- ' | sudo apt-key add -
apt install eawpatches-package

and followed the instruction on

But it seems there is no such file /etc/timidity/eawpatches.cfg, only /usr/share/eawpatches-package/eawpatches.cfg but neither file work, if I add it to my timidity config

I get this error:

gravis.cfg: No such file or directory
gsdrums.cfg: No such file or directory
gssfx.cfg: No such file or directory
xgmap2.cfg: No such file or directory
timidity: Error reading configuration file.
Please check /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg

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I have never used this software, but empirically I got the following steps:

1. run make-eawpatches-package script from eawpatches-package package (it will download the patches package and create deb-package named eawpatches_12-10+local_all.deb)

2. install deb-package with

   sudo apt-get install ./eawpatches_12-10+local_all.deb

As the result you will have the cfg-files installed:

$ dpkg -L eawpatches | grep /etc
/etc
/etc/timidity
/etc/timidity/eawpatches
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/default.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/gravis.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/gsdrums.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/gssfx.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/mt-32.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/proteus2.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/sndfont.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/sustain.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches/xgmap2.cfg
/etc/timidity/eawpatches.cfg

along with *.pat files inside /usr/share/midi/eawpatches/*.

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This method is documented in /usr/share/doc/eawpatches-package/README.Debian and in /usr/share/eawpatches-package/README.Debian.

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